Open AccessThe Role of Mass Media in World Politics: Media Coverage of Battles for Capital Cities during Civil Conflicts
Author(s) -
А. В. Аделгареева,
И. Ю. Окунев
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
meždunarodnaâ analitika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2541-9633
pISSN - 2587-8476
DOI - 10.46272/2587-8476-2018-0-1-7-21
Subject(s) - politics , political science , mass media , representation (politics) , civil society , political economy , news media , capital (architecture) , media studies , public relations , sociology , law , geography , archaeology
The article centers on the political aspects of international news making, i.e. the coverage of major political news by global media. Nowadays we are witnessing rising interest towards the modus operandi of global media, its newly-acquired functions and its role as a world politics actor. In this study new empirical data is used to assess the role global media plays in the representation of major civil conflicts and to revisit the commonly-accepted understanding of its political functions. With the help of discourse analysis, the authors investigate the realities of the civil wars in Libya and Syria through the lens of their representations in international news, the aim being to unveil the influence of the existing social frames on the pertinent media content.